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AFS Marketing & Selling of Castings Conference emphasizes the value of castings.


More than 80 representatives from the metalcasting community traveled to the Sofitel Sofitel is a luxury French hotel chain managed by Accor. It operates 192 hotels internationally, on all six inhabited continents. History
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, Ill., Aug. 2-3 for the AFS A distributed file system for large, widely dispersed Unix and Windows networks from Transarc Corporation, now part of IBM. It is noted for its ease of administration and expandability and stems from Carnegie-Mellon's Andrew File System.

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 Marketing & Selling of Castings Conference.

With the theme "Intelligent Growth Strategies to Improve Your Bottom Line," the event brought metalcasting representatives together to discuss numerous topics on how to further improve the marketing potential for the industry.

The conference included presentations on the current state of the U.S. metalcasting industry, cost effective sales options-direct sales versus representatives, casting design to gain the attention of engineers and buyers, and building better customer relationships.

The afternoon sessions on both days included roundtable discussions, allowing the attendees to gain a more intimate approach with matters affecting their business. Such topics included how to close a casting sale, promoting a metalcasting facility, knowing competition, and a SWOT (strengths weaknesses opportunities threats) analysis.

The conference concluded with Ron Noun 1. Ron - a Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria
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 Metals, presenting how to market and sell engineered cast components on value.
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Title Annotation:AFS/CMI News
Publication:Modern Casting
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1U3IL
Date:Sep 1, 2004
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